Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Mathematician, Academic
1717 – 1783
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Who was Jean le Rond d'Alembert?
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after him. The wave equation is sometimes referred to as d'Alembert's equation.
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- Born
- Nov 16, 1717
Paris - Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Lived in
- Paris
- Died
- Oct 29, 1783
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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